Cumulative Updates - March 10th 2020

Dear Microsoft team,

I usually appreciate your endeavor to improve and update, however these are not normal times. Due to covid-19, computers have become essential for work, school and food orders. In light of that, would you please consider minimizing those mandatory updates? Focusing only on the bare minimum that's absolutely essential to security?

My family uses 4 windows computers, and this is the 3rd (!) time I've had to re-install windows in the recent weeks, after faulty "updates" that conflicted with network drivers, sound drivers, and most recently MS store. It won't even work with "keep your files" - it forced a clean installation. I assume I'm not the only one experiencing this disruption and stress, and it's possibly worse for people who are not technologically inclined, and used to rely on technicians - which you can't access during isolation.

Thanks for your consideration

Hi 

Microsoft don't follow this forum. You need to contact one of their support workers separate to this forum like I did. If you read my last comment from yesterday you will see I have passed the issues from this forum to the. If your computers are working okay, suggest you pause updates for a while.

Hello, Ruth.  With all the problems folks are having with these updates, I have mine paused-at least for as long as they will let me pause them.  I am wondering if I should just take my computer down to where I bought it, and let them install the updates?  The guys there are far more computer savvy than I am.  I have never had any problems with them in the past.  They were able to retrieve my files when the God-awful, Octobre 2018 updates did damage.  These folks would know which ones to install first, so that I do not lose everything again, and so that nothing gets broken-again!  Or, as Lana has said below, maybe contacting Microsoft directly would help, as well?  I do not mind updates, but not when "the cure is worse than the disease"-as the saying goes.

Hi Cassandra,

  If I hadn't mentioned this before (and I'm pretty sure I did) I use DEFENDER.

  I am STILL plagued by Cumulative Updates not installing.  Just for grins I un-paused my updates and it tried for a 7th time to install KB4551762,  fail, error 0x800f081f

  I immediately re-paused them.

  I might not be thinking clearly, but it seems like all this nonsense started right about the same time THE MICROSOFT STORE started popping up at startup daily...

  The ONLY third party software I run is Brave Browser, because it is not a memory glut like most other browsers, and come with built in Ad Blocking.

  Before you say that IT might be the issue, my browser does not load until I load it, and I have tried several time to do updates without opening the browser.

  I visited the site PBurns mentioned only to see his question to the TECHNICIANS being ignored just like our rants here.

  I have been using computers since 1984, had the 2nd machine owned by the company I worked for for 32 1/2 yrs.

  I have never been as frustrated with an issue such as these CUMULATIVE UPDATES.

  I hope I am wrong, but something seems amiss with MicroSoft...

  Bob.

This is not Microsoft Support.  This is Community, you and I, not Technicians, just normal people.  People who reach out to each other. To reach Microsoft for these comments you posted, you need to go to the Microsoft SUPPORT page or call Microsoft. Or Type in Microsoft Support.com.  Get the Technicians.  This is not it.  We are the blind leading the blind here on this Community.

With all the issues caused by bad updates, how do I decide to let an update install?

You can't they are forced updates, that is the annoying part about Windows now, among MANY other things.

You are forced to install an update that can potentially kill your computer and make you wipe and restore, losing everything if you don't have it backed up.